Ronald Reagan Quotes

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I am a deficit hawk.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Let us have the courage to stop borrowing to meet continuing deficits. Revenues must cover expenditures by one means or another. Any government, like any family, can, for a year, spend a little more than it earns. But you know and I know that a continuation of the habit means the poor house.

Last year 100,000 people gathered on The Mall to Protest the deficit. We Republicans, over and over, castigated President Obama for creating a Trillion dollar deficit. I was against big deficits then, and I am agaist them now. Just because it is now Republicans doing all the spending, I am still opposed.... Those Republcians who voted for a tax cut and a spending increase are hypocrites.

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who voted against President George W. Bush's fiscally bloated No Child Left Behind education bill and hyper-expensive Medicare prescription-drug bill. He said he would not support new middle-class entitlements. He was consistent.

One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.

We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

I am a fiscal conservative.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.